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Well here it is – our first offer of drinking Sauternes! We’ve scoured the cellars of Bordeaux to find the very best value wines and have come up with some truly great Sauternes.

All except one of these wines are cheaper per bottle than buying the recent 2009 vintage (some are only one third of the price) – and you don’t have to wait ten years to see them at their best! The 2009 Sauternes may well turn out to be the best ever vintage but these wines represent the very best value Sauternes that you can drink today. We’re delighted to make this offer of

Best Buy Sauternes For Drinking Now

Even better, you can buy your Sauternes either by the whole case or have fun mixing your own bespoke selection!

Why not slip in a half bottle or two of d’Yquem alongside some great value de Myrat and La Tour Blanche? The de Myrat is cheaper than most own label supermarket Sauternes and, quite frankly, is three times the wine!

All the Sauternes have been perfectly stored in Bordeaux cellars and will be shipped to the UK for delivery in late October in plenty of time for Christmas (if they last you that long!)

Some of these wines are simply not available anywhere else in the UK so don’t miss this opportunity to grab them while you can.

We hope you enjoy this offer and these sensational Sauternes. Bill Blatch

Jancis Robinson MW has joined the praise for the 2009 Sauternes vintage and published her tasting notes in her Purple Pages at www.jancisrobinson.com We are grateful again for a mention of this site – thank you! Snippets from the notes I found particularly pleasing amongst many were:

Climens – Great blend of richness, raciness and life. This should be very special indeed and I may be under-scoring it. 18.5+ points

Which wine am I talking about? Well the candidates for the 2009 Sauternes and Barsac Second Growth Exhibitionist Award in this video are Caillou, d’Arche, de Malle, de Myrat and Doisy Daene – can you guess?

Next up are the rest of the Second Growths tasted – Doisy-Vedrines, Filhot, Lamothe, Lamothe-Guignard and Nairac. Bill Blatch

Second video from the mammoth 2007 and 2009 Sauternes and Barsac tasting at Chateau de Fargues. This covers nine 2007 Second Growth wines, with at least one property producing First Growth quality wine.

Last of three videos from Denis Dubourdieu of Château Doisy-Daëne talking this time about his extraordinary wine l’Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne. Only Denis knows how to get yeasts to work at high sugar levels and, at the same time, retain his trademark freshness.

Next up some more Barsac wines, Doisy-Védrines, Nairac, Liot and La Clotte-Cazalis. Bill Blatch

So, is the 2009 Sauternes vintage a great one? It is of course much too early to make any such claims – the wines are still in barrel. However, we spent last Saturday in Barsac with Denis Dubourdieu of Château Doisy Daëne and Nicolas Heeter-Tari of Château Nairac and both had some interesting insights into 2009 in Sauternes and Barsac.

We had a great lunch too at Nairac and were introduced to an interesting new style of Sauternes wine which might just catch on.